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Awesome starter to Torchwood.

Advantages: Amazing scripts, amazing performances and solid special features.
Disadvantages: Slow first episode and gore and sex can be quite OTT for young viewers.

...1 of the hit show Torchwood vary in stucture and content. The first episode "Everything Changes" is, in my opinion, a bit dodgy. It lacks the pace that the rest of the show picks up, and although it was just a starter episode to get it going, I feel it could have used a lot more oppurtunities for more pace rather than the heavy characterisation. However, it's a good episode - as long as you view it from a pre-season angle. The second episode "Day ...
...and turn in the ever-changing Torchwood universe and takes us into Ianto's past (an excellent performance by Gareth David Lloyd makes this believable), and the team confront a cyberwoman from Doctor Who - a truly gore-packed episode! The final installment in this collection is "Small Worlds", which again shocked me and left me stunned by the amount of emotion conveyed through the performance of Lara Phillipart, a young female actress - who, as a ...

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Review of Torchwood - Series 1 Vol.1 (DVD)

Worth it for the first story alone.

Advantages: Countrycide, special features.
Disadvantages: Some weaker episodes (Random Shoes etc)

...and surreal viewing as the Torchwood team are stranded in the countryside - with evil people about. The performances are top notch in this episode, with everybody contributing fantastically and the emotion is shockingly solid. The script writing is also astonishing, and there are some exciting twists and turns. The rest of the volume, however, is let down by what seems to be a mid season blip - it's surprisingly weak compared to the rest of the ...
...performances are shaky, while "Greeks Bearing Gifts" - while holding some important themes of loss and lesbianism - is a letdown. However, "They Keep Killing Suzie" pulls the side up again, but since most of the episode takes place in a car, it may not attract to the people who prefer non stop action. The special features are also informative, lending helpful insights into the episodes villains and the script writing. Although they aren't on par ...

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Review of Torchwood - Series 1 Vol.2 (DVD)

Torchwood - Hit Series

Advantages: Brilliant episodes, brilliant special features.
Disadvantages: Nothing!

Torchwood Series 1 - a hit new TV show to BBC Three at the time of airing, now a huge BBC1 hit. The Doctor Who spinoff is , to put it frankly, terrific. The first series covers so much ground and emotional (and action packed) ideas and motives: the characterisation is spot on, and the acting is furiously great. The first episode introduces the show brilliant, the sexy tones of 'Day One' (don't watch with anyone under 15!), the action packed events ...
...individual episode along with the Torchwood Declassified episodes. It also contains a Captain Jack Video Diary which is full of hilarity and shows how much fun the cast had in the making of the series. All in all, a brilliant buy, not just for the episodes, but also for the special features. (Subtitles and audio descriptions are also included.) ...

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Review of Torchwood - Series 1 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

Meet Darren. He's sixteen going on immortal.

Advantages: Some good casting, great special effects, entertaining storyline
Disadvantages: Too silly and unrealistic for my liking

...under his wing at the Cirque du Freak and prepares him for the lifestyle that vampires lead. But when a war breaks out between the vampires and their deadly counterparts, Darren must learn how to fight in order to save himself, his family and the vampire population. ~ Cast ~ Darren - Chris Massoglia Larten Crepsley - John Reilly Steve - Josh Hutcherson Mr Tiny - Michael Cerveris Rebecca - Jessica Carlson Evra the Snake Boy - Patrick Fugit Murlaugh ...
...completely ridiculous and so gave Cirque du Freak a watch. Unfortunately though, this one generally falls into the ridiculous category. The two young actors playing best friends Darren and Steve, who both become vampires, are the most natural actors in the film and manage to combine their normal teenage life at school with turning into an vampire very well. They both play very different characters with Darren being sensible and caring, more cautious ...

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Review of Cirque Du Freak - The Vampire's Assistant

Ile be back and back and back...

Advantages: Better than I had hoped
Disadvantages: weak ending

...me. The original Terminator film wasn't the greatest action movie ever made but it certainly made Arnie. When he got the script for it he told his agent he would have to cancel his appearance at the 1983 Mr Universe competition because he had to do this "shi**y robot movie". How wrong he was. But he was up for T2, the superb sequel, quite simply the best science-fiction action movie ever made for me, not aged by one single day since its 1991 release. ...
...five years. Let's hope the Terminator franchise doesn't end up in Moscow on vacation. -The Cast- Christian Bale ... John Connor Sam Worthington ... Marcus Wright Moon Bloodgood ... Blair Williams Helena Bonham Carter ... Dr. Serena Kogan Anton Yelchin ... Kyle Reese Jadagrace ... Star Bryce Dallas Howard ... Kate Connor Common ... Barnes Jane Alexander ... Virginia Michael Ironside ... General Ashdown -The Plot- Its 2018, two decades after Skynet ...

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